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Building Maker - Create 3D buildings online
"Try Building Maker
Building Maker is a 3D modeling tool for adding buildings to Google Earth. It's fun to use, and an easy way to get on the 3D map. Here's how it works: Select a city from around the world.
Make a building with photos we provide.
Save your building and it will be reviewed.
See your 3D building in Google Earth!
Millions of people will be able to see your model in Google
Earth."
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Google For Educators
"Classroom activities - A brief overview of Google products and ideas for integrating them into classwork (all grades)"
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."
Google Docs - Viewer
"Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser."
Google Apps K-12 Lesson Plans using Docs, Sites, and Calendar.
"A Place in Time with Google Apps Cheryl Davis
Use the study of photography to explore with your students the power of images and their impact on history. In this lesson students develop geographic literacy & learn about the history of American photography by selecting and critiquing
photographs in an interactive and collaborative activity."
Google For Educators
"The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on
experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region."
RechargeIT.org
"RechargeIT is an effort within Google.org that aims to reduce CO2 emissions, cut oil use, and stabilize the electrical grid by accelerating the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. We have a demonstration fleet of plug-ins at our headquarters in Mountain View and make publicly available the statistics on the performance of those cars. Our vision is that one day millions of cars will be plugging into a greener grid.
Since the inception of RechargeIT in 2007, we've been pleased to see great progress in this field: In our controlled Driving Experiment, Google plug-ins achieved 93+ MPG
Almost every large automaker is putting out a plug-in in the next 2 - 4 years
Recently-passed federal stimulus legislation contains $2 billion for plug-ins The stimulus bill also includes a U.S. tax credit of up to $7,500 per vehicle intended to spark the sale of up to 1.5 million plug-ins"
Google SketchUp
"What's New in Google SketchUp 7
Fast and reliable
We've made SketchUp even more intuitive, added tools for power users, and made it easier to find and share models with the world.
We've made SketchUp easier to use. With edges that
automatically break other edges where they cross, objects that are smart enough to know how they should behave when you interact with them, and drawing hints that are clearer and more consistent, Google SketchUp 7 is the most intuitive
SketchUp ever.
It's all about collaboration and sharing.
In SketchUp 7, you can search for models in the Google 3D Warehouse right from the Component browser, take credit for what you contribute, keep track of your collaborators,
and generally bask in the glow of knowing you're part of the worldwide 3D community.
PRO There's even more in SketchUp Pro.
LayOut is officially out of beta and ready to go. LayOut 2 is
faster, more reliable and includes vector rendering, improved text handling and more. SketchUp Pro power users can also create Dynamic Components: models that animate, scale and replicate intelligently.
Learn more about LayOut 2 and Dynamic Components in
Google SketchUp Pro 7 »"
Improving poor people: the welfare ... - Google Books
""There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between
activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American past. To understand contemporary poverty, he looks particularly at an old attitude: because many nineteenth-century reformers traced extreme poverty to drink,
laziness, and other forms of bad behavior, they tried to use public policy and philanthropy to improve the character of poor people, rather than to attack the structural causes of their misery. Showing how this misdiagnosis has afflicted
today's welfare and educational systems, Katz draws on his own experiences to introduce each of four topics--the welfare state, the "underclass" debate, urban school reform, and the strategies of survival used by the urban poor. Uniquely
informed by his personal involvement, each chapter also illustrates the interpretive power of history by focusing on a strand of social policy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: social welfare from the poorhouse era
through the New Deal, ideas about urban poverty from the undeserving poor to the "underclass," and the emergence of public education through the radical school reform movement now at work in Chicago.Why have American governments proved unable to redesign a welfare system that will satisfy anyone? Why has public policy proved unable to eradicate poverty and prevent the deterioration of major
cities? What strategies have helped poor people survive the poverty endemic to urban history? How did urban schools become unresponsive bureaucracies that fail to educate most of their students? Are there fresh, constructive ways to think
about welfare, poverty, and public education? Throughout the book Katz shows how interpretations of the past, grounded in analytic history, can free us of comforting myths and help us to reframe discussions of these great"
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Google Historical Voyages and Historical Events
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Overview:
What historical event, explorer, voyage, or local
history would you like to share with other schools? Have you studied the
settlement history of your own community? Have you studied about your state or
country and historical events that helped shape it?This site is dedicated to the explorers, voyages,
events, and historical backgrounds of countries throughout the World. We'd like
to hear about famous explorers who surveyed or traveled through your community
long ago. Perhaps you'd like to tell us about historical events that shaped your
locale or region. You may wish to report about a catastrophic event in your
area. Or, you may want to tell us how your community was founded, its historical
background, early settlers. Every community, every
town, every country has a past, and we'd like to hear about
yours.This project is open to schools all over the World. We invite
a "global community" of schools to share this site with us. We can learn about
each other's countries as we contribute to this site.
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